Youth Diversion and Development Services

The government authority in Alameda, CA, seeks organizations to provide youth diversion and development services for youth who have come into contact or are at risk of coming into contact with the justice system. The contractor must develop individualized care plans using a strengths-based, healing and trauma-informed, restorative approach. Scope includes servicing youth referred in lieu of arrest or citation for infractions, status offenses, misdemeanors, and felonies. The contractor must deliver offsite services, demonstrate commitment to community equity, and offer youth-centered care sensitive to behavioral and medical health needs. The contract period spans one year, and the buyer is looking for proposal budgets. Eligibility requires the vendor to be onshore within the USA. Key dates include a mandatory virtual proposers' conference on August 25, 2026, and a deadline to submit all questions by August 28, 2026.